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		<title>AI Can’t Write Empathy</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2025/10/15/ai-cant-write-empathy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ava Babbage]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every week there’s a new AI tool that promises to “revolutionize creativity.”Great. Because if there’s one thing creativity needed, it’s a login screen and a subscription fee. Now you can prompt a bot to write your love letters, design your art, and plan your funeral playlist. And the best part? It’ll do it all without [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jules.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jules is an interesting little cat. Just hook it up to your GitHub, give it permission to work on a repository, and then start chatting about a program you want to build. Google’s AI-coding assistant will then do the necessary things to build a plan, and then execute that plan resulting in a codebase that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Select Mac Applications: Subtle Yet Significant Solutions</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2024/09/04/select-mac-applications-subtle-yet-significant-solutions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some free, one paid, and a subscription. Worth checking out.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pickering vs Grado: Chapter two — Penny Lane</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vintage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pickering]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This time we're looking at a Beatles classic for our cartridge comparison. Penny Lane from the Canadian pressing of 1967 - 1970. Which will sound better? ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pickering vs Grado: Chapter one — introduction, review, and listening to an old favourite</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2024/03/11/pickering-vs-grado-chapter-one-introduction-review-and-listening-to-an-old-favourite/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vintage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two cartridges. One vintage, the other new. Which sounds 'better'? What is better? I get to play with charts and audio stuff, and play cool tunes to YouTube! What's not to like. And maybe we find out a bit more about these two cartridges.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Akai AP-Q41 won’t quite fit the Pickering XV-15 625E cartridge with brush</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2024/02/15/akai-ap-q41-wont-quite-fit-the-pickering-xv-15-625e-cartridge-with-brush/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vintage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five minutes with a wire and some creative bending...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Frankenstein Cartridge is Alive!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[3d Printing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to capture the first playback of the Frankenstein Cartridge.]]></description>
		
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		<title>PLEX Privacy Problem.</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/11/28/plex-privacy-problem/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of November 2023, PLEX enabled some new features that have turned out to be a bit of a PR and Privacy nightmare. Basically, they’ve started emailing all members of a PLEX server with the recent viewing habits of other members of that server. Even if the members don’t know each other, PLEX [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poirot discusses the movie Knives Out with his friends.</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/10/19/poirot-disucsses-the-movie-knives-out-with-his-friends/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ava Babbage]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A dinner party and a movie review. The famous Belgian detective and friends discuss Knives Out.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Making progress</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/09/21/making-progress/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Updating my slowly-evolving analog audio project wherein I undertake to rebuild/recover my enjoyment of observing the phenomonon created when a tiny diamond rides merrily through a vinyl groove, delightedly vibrating, producing a minuscule electrical current that eventually (through amplification magic) becomes the sweet sound that we call analog music. The project makes progress and it's revealed that younger-me was a bonehead.

#Vinyl #Vintage #TurnTables #Audiophile #FakeAlbumCovers]]></description>
		
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		<title>This pile of gear is starting to come to life… and a list of vinyl test albums</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/07/13/this-pile-of-gear-is-starting-to-come-to-life-and-a-list-of-vinyl-test-albums/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ChatGPT]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An old turntable, a new cartridge, and a list of awesome albums to pick up. What's not to like!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using ChatGPT to create a flight simulator flight plan in Little NavMap format</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/05/13/using-chatgpt-to-create-a-flight-simulator-flight-plan-in-little-navmap-format/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 01:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flight Simulator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle Technology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Short post to just document the prompt I use with ChatGPT. It works ok, for short flights. For some reason, ChatGPT seems to stall out if the flightplan has more than five or six user waypoints, in addition to the departure and destination waypoints. I should probably look at optimizing this prompt, it’s a bit [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aziz! Light!</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/04/13/aziz-light/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Circuit Python]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi Pico W]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An AI chatbot leads me on a coding adventure that ultimately ends up ignoring all the work the AI did in the first place.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Note to self — use the reboxing service</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/03/31/note-to-self-use-the-reboxing-service/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Grier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Calculators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEC PC-2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shipping]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shipping something a fair distance? Pack it well or use a packing service. I learned a lesson the hard way.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bob tries out a new plane.</title>
		<link>https://blog.bradgrier.com/2023/03/28/bob-tries-out-a-new-plane/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Yeager]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flight Simulator]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bob tries out a new plane on a short cross-country mid-winter flight into the Rockies. Things go wrong, but Bob prevails.]]></description>
		
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